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Protests outside Guantanamo Bay detention centre to mark 5th anniversary
1. Wide shot of protest against detention camp at Guantanamo Bay
2. Tilt up from banner to demonstrators
3. Medium of demonstrators chanting, including peace activist Cindy Sheehan
4. Mid shot of T-shirt bearing slogan "Shut Down...
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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi among speakers on day 2 of Democrats Convention
Democrats looked to their popular former President Bill Clinton on day two of their national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, hoping to boost enthusiasm among the base and recapture the heart of the party.
But hours before...
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First meeting of 'parliament' of migrant leaders
1. Wide interior of opening ceremony of first Parliament of Mexican Migrants Leaders in Mexico City
2. Mexican migrant leaders during opening ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Elvira Arellano, Activist:
"Today, during dinner, I will not...
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Miners set up razor wire ahead of mass strike in platinum mining sector
Security was being heightened outside platinum mines across the northwestern mining belt of South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a planned mass strike on Thursday.
The strike for higher wages could affect more than half the platinum...
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CHINA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STAGE POLITICAL PRISONER PROTEST
English/Nat
The human rights group Amnesty International has tested the limits of Chinese tolerance with a rare protest highlighting the plight of political prisoners.
The demonstration came at the NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation)...
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Second anniversary of gang rape and murder of student on bus that sparked public outrage
Indians will mark will mark the second anniversary on Tuesday of a brutal gang-rape that sparked outrage across the country.
The victim of the brutal December 16 gang rape in New Delhi was a 23-year-old physiotherapy student.
She was...
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Amnesty says China has failed in promises to improve human rights
Hong Kong, 28 July 2008
1. Pan across Amnesty International news conference
2. Amnesty International spokeswoman Roseanne Rife talking
3. Mid of reporters
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Allison, China Researcher, Amnesty International:
"We...
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At the prosecution's request, murder charges were dropped against two white men accused in the dragging death of a black man in east Texas.
HEADLINE: Charges dropped in black man's dragging death
CAPTION: At the prosecution's request, murder charges were dropped against two white men accused in the dragging death of a black man in east Texas. (June 6)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] ...
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Preview of Toronto International Film Festival
AP Entertainment
Toronto, Canada, 8 September 2011
1. Wide pan of downtown Toronto
2. Pan of street and traffic
3. CU view of Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) sign
4. Cutaway of Director of Toronto Film Festival, Piers Handling, speaking to...
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Human rights demonstration outside the G20 summit
About a dozen human rights activists representing different movements gathered to protest at St Petersburg's major avenue Nevsky Prospect on Thursday in an attempt to draw the attention of G20 leaders to alleged violation of human rights...
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KOSOVO: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST BROVINA WELCOMED
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Flora Brovina, the human rights activist who was released from a Serb prison on Wednesday, has been warmly welcomed by her friends and relatives at her home in Pristina.
She said she welcomed the democratic change in...
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French stamp with activist's likeness proves controversial
1. Wide of stamp shop with placard showing Marianne stamps in the foreground
2. Mid of stamps
3. Close up of sheet of stamps
4. Close-up stamp placard
5. Pan right of store
6. SOUNDBITE: (French) Vox Pop, Renee Delorme, 76:
(Answering...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY TO END MINERS' STRIKE
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russian and Ukrainian government officials have met trade union leaders in the two countries to try to end a strike by more than a (m) million coal miners.
The strike is the largest walkout in the former Soviet Union...
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Paul & Heather McCarteny in Canada to protest against seal hunt
AP Entertainment
Canada, 2nd March 2006
1. GVs Seals
2. GVs McCartney's arriving
3. SOUNDBITE Paul McCartney:
"In about three weeks time these baby seals are due to be clubbed to death or shot in what is known as the seal hunt. For...
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INDIA: AMBASSADORS IN KASHMIR TOLD OF HUMAN RIGHT'S ABUSES
English/Nat
Western ambassadors visiting Kashmir have been told of alleged human rights abuses by the Indian government.
The envoys from Italy, France, Holland, Spain and Ireland, are making a routine annual trip to the disputed...
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Local observers say elections were not transparent
Belarus parliamentary elections held over the weekend were not transparent and serious violations occurred, independent local human rights organisations said on Monday.
Valentin Stefanovich, coordinator of the rights activists for free...
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U.S. Park Police arrested more than 100 people, including numerous faith leaders and immigration rights activists during a sit-in outside the White House on Thursday. The sit-in was held to protest U.S. deportation policies. (July 31)
On a day when House Republicans abruptly canceled a vote on their own border security legislation, faith leaders and immigration rights staged an act of civil disobedience by conducting a sit-in at the White House fence.
The U.S. Park...
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Activist Feng Zhenghu at airport as he attempts to return home to China
1. Chinese activist Feng Zhenghu approaches the media at Narita International Airport
2. Various of Feng walking through airport terminal, showing passport
3. Media cutaway
4. Various of Feng at check-in desk
5. Feng showing boarding...
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PHILIPPINES: MANILA: ACTIVISTS STAGE PROTEST OUTSIDE US EMBASSY
Tagalog/Nat
Demonstrators in the Philippines have marked the seventh anniversary of the decision not to retain U-S military bases with a controversial anti-Clinton protest.
Activists wearing masks depicting Monica Lewinsky and the U-S...
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STRAY DOGS TERRORISE RESIDENTS
AP Television
Srinagar, Jammu, Kashmir - April 4, 2012
1. Various of stray dogs in a Srinagar neighbourhood
2. Wide of stray dogs on the street as pedestrians pass by
3. Wide of dogs on street
4. Tilt up from dogs to pedestrians...
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Russians celebrate May Day with parades
1. Wide of communist demonstrators in front of Karl Marx statue
2. Police walking
3. Wide of Gennady Zyuganov (left with red tie) communist leader
4. Close up of communist emblem
5. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Gennady Zyuganov, leader of...
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India - Political Protest
Opposition parties moved Wednesday (3/8) to step up a united
offensive against Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao after steering
Indian politics on to a confrontational course. Members of a
centre-left coalition staged a demonstration at...
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Thousands in torchlight march in honour of nationalist hero Stepan Bandera
About 3,000 people marched through the streets of Ukraine's capital on Thursday night to mark the 106th birthday of World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist insurgent leader, Stepan Bandera.
The demonstrators glorified Bandera, who allied...
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4:3 File as Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow, dies at 88
Oslo, 10 December 1975
1. Wide of prize giving ceremony
2. Various of Yelena Bonner, wife of the prize winner Andrei Sakharov who was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union to collect his prize, at ceremony to receive husband's Nobel...